Combination communion-cup, envelop, and pencil holder.



D. MUNN. COMBINATION OOMMUNION 0UP, ENVELOP, AND PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1909.

929,461 Patented July 27, 1909.

' I/hgwld 11 111311 DUGALD MUNN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINATION COMMUNION-CUP, ENVELOP, AND PENCIL HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1909.

Application filed June 8, 1909. Serial No. 500,832.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUGALD MUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combination Communion-Cup, Envelop, and Pencil Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved construction in combination communion cup, envelop and pencil-holders, and it has for its essential object to construct a device which is extremely simple in its formation and inexpensive to manufacture, the same being preferably made from a single piece of metal.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view showing a preferred form of construction; Fig. 2, a. transverse section of the device; Fig. 3, a detailed section taken on line 3-.3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a detailed section on line l t of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a detailed section taken through one of the bosses of the device, and Fig. 6, a sectional elevation showing .he device removably mounted within a retainer.

This improved combination device comprises essentially a transverse metal plate or strip 7, having one or more openings 8 punched therethrough, which serve as seats or retainers for communion cups 9, as indicated especially in Fig. l. The transverse metal plate or strip 7, as shown, has its inner portion 10 angularly bent or formed downwardly, its normal position being against or adjacent to the back of a church pew 11, and is provided with one or more bosses 12, preferably at both sides thereof, so that the space between the metal plate and the church pew may be used as an envelop or paper holder, it being understood that the oppositely arranged bosses 12 prevent the CIH'QlOPS or paper from slipping or falling out sidewise, as well as holding the upper portion of the device away from the church pew. The opposite end walls are turned so as to form pencil retainers 13, the

bottom of said retainers having, as shown in Fig. 3, a part of their bottom edges 14 struck out transversely for engaging and limiting the insertion of pencils 15 therein.

As stated, the device is preferably made from a single piece of metal, although any other suitable material may be used, and in use may be securely fastened to the back of a church pew, as indicated in Fig. 2, or else removably attached as in Fig. 6, in which the lower portion 16 of the metal plate is in engagement with clips or retainers 17.

I claim:

1. A combination communion cup, envelop and pencil holder, comprising a strip of metal having an angularly formed body, one side of the body adapted to engage the rear of a church pew, the other side normally positioned transversely thereto-and having one or more openings therein for retaining communion cups, either or both of the opposite end walls formed into pencil holders, and the opposite sides of the body adjacent the church pew having bosses for spacing the device from the church pew and for limiting the sidcwise movement of envelope or paper contained therein, substantially as described.

2. A combination communion cup, envelop and pencil holder comprising a strip of metal having an angularly formed body, one side of the body adapted to engage the rear of a church pew, the other side normally positioned transversely thereto and having one or more openings therein for retaining communion cups, the opposite end walls being turned upon themselves and having a part of their bodies struck out forming stops for limiting the insertion of pencils therein, and the opposite sides of the body adjacent the church pew having bosses which tend to space the upper part of the device from the church pew as well as limiting the sidewise movement of envelops or paper contained therein, substantially as described.

3. As an article of manufacture, a combination communion cup, envelop and pencil holder formed from a single piece of metal,

its body adapted to receive one or more comcent a church peW for spacing the device from the church pew, saiclispaceisetvinglase an envelop or paper retainer, substantially as described.

DUGALD MU'N'N.

lVitnesses TALKER BANNING, E SON KW-l A'NNIN .-:1 

